Tag: Malta

Italian authorities allow the Ocean Viking to disembark 182 survivors in Italy

Human Rights, Mediterranean, Migrants, NGOs, Press Release, SOS MEDITERRANEE

Central Mediterranean. On Sunday evening, the Ocean Viking, a humanitarian rescue ship chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE and operated in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), received instructions from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) of Rome to proceed to Messina, Italy, to disembark 182 people rescued at sea....

The success of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS)

Articles, HRAS Development, International Issues, NGOs, Slavery, Summary killings at sea, Trafficking, UN

    MOAS – MIGRANT OFFSHORE AID STATION   A Story to tell by Elizabeth Mavropoulou Introduction Most people will remember the immense tragedy following the shipwreck of a boat carrying 500 migrants, most of them Eritreans and Somalis, from Africa to Europe that sank off the southern Italian island of Lampeduza, taking with...

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